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Tech Giants Vow to Tackle Online Hate Speech Within 24 Hours

posted by takyon on Thursday June 02 2016, @03:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the quick-to-censor dept.

jmorris writes:

We have heard the rumblings, now it comes.... the Code of Conduct for social media along with the banhammer.

From Bloomberg we get this warning:

U.S. Internet giants Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., Google and Microsoft Corp. pledged to tackle online hate speech in less than 24 hours as part of a joint commitment with the European Union to combat the use of social media by terrorists.

Of course terrorists are defined down to "unambiguous hate speech that they said promoted racism, homophobia or anti-Semitism" before the short article ends.

Buckle up folks, the ride is is about to get bumpy.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by art guerrilla on Thursday June 02 2016, @11:08AM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Thursday June 02 2016, @11:08AM (#353982)

    *sigh*
    so tired of this bee ess:
    there is no such thing as 'hate speech', there is speech, there is hate, and speech CAN be hateful (that is why we have speech, after all: to EXPRESS ourselves, not just our angels), but that hate is TOTALLY in the ear of the behearer (?)...
    there is hate, there is crime, but there is no such thing as 'hate crime'...
    (IF there IS such a thing as 'hate crime', please tell me what a 'love crime' is, then...)
    for the millionth time, you stupid fucking inertnet moral scolds: you have the right to NOT be assaulted; you do NOT have the right to NOT be insulted...

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 02 2016, @12:07PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Thursday June 02 2016, @12:07PM (#354007) Homepage Journal

    The Canadian hate speech law doesn't forbid expressing hatred. It forbids knowingly spreading false news in order to incite hatred. And "knowingly" and "false" can be hard to prove.